Food Technology Magazine | Dialogue
George Washington Carver Food Research Institute (GWCFRI) inaugural Explore Ag STEAM Camp. Photo courtesy of GWCFRI
In 2013, my husband Ian Blount and I, while running Coalescence, our custom ingredient manufacturing business, founded the George Washington Carver Food Research Institute (GWCFRI) in Columbus, Ohio. We’ve since moved GWCFRI to Charlotte, N.C., but the nonprofit’s purpose remains the same: To expose underrepresented youth to the variety of career pathways available to them in the science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) disciplines within the food and agriculture space. Our goal …